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BTW, heads up to you Netflix subscribers! There is a phishing e-mail going around titled “Netflix, Subscription Payment Failure” – read this on FB, posted by my niece, who is in the AF:

“Dear FB friends, please pass this far and wide to every Netflix subscriber you know!
I received a ‘phishing’ email last night and it looked VERY authentic! (It even had the correct expiry date and last 4 digits of my bank card (which I have covered over)).
I went as far as clicking the ‘Validate My Account’ link because it looked genuine.
However, I was then asked to provide my full name, address AND bank card details.
This seemed fishy to me so I checked my bank account and there had been no problem whatsoever with my subscription – my monthly payment had come out as usual.
I forwarded the email to Netflix and they NEVER ask for bank or personal details online.
So be warned folks!”

Heard commentator assert as fact on #MSNBC that beyond doubt @POTUS "memory and emotional judgment is slipping," even from his days on #CelebrityApprentice. total bullshit. I spent an hour w @realDonaldTrump on #AF1 He's sharp, focused & exactly as he's been for the last 40 years

If Dems go after Trump on mental fitness it will backfire big time. There will be hundreds coming out to talk about Trump’s intelligence, decision making, brilliance, etc. They will come from people he has had had business dealings with, personal dealings with, and governmental dealings with. I’ve already read some of the stories.

. Well if all it took to accomplish the historically long list of what Trump has accomplished was a mentally unfit president like Trump…. we should of elected HIS KIND OF mentally unfit a long ass time ago…… #MAGA on people!

Not only is the FBI re-opening the Killary e-mail investigation, they are also opening a new investigation into the Clinton Foundation!!!!

“The Justice Department has launched a new inquiry into whether the Clinton Foundation engaged in any pay-to-play politics or other illegal activities while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, law enforcement officials and a witness tells The Hill.

FBI agents from Little Rock, Ark., where the Foundation was started, have taken the lead in the investigation and have interviewed at least one witness in the last month, and law enforcement officials said additional activities are expected in coming weeks.

The officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the probe is examining whether the Clintons promised or performed any policy favors in return for largesse to their charitable efforts or whether donors made commitments of donations in hopes of securing government outcomes.

The probe may also examine whether any tax-exempt assets were converted for personal or political use and whether the Foundation complied with applicable tax laws, the officials said.”

Every article on this seems to contain the same paragraph: “One challenge for any Clinton-era investigation is that the statute of limitations on most federal felonies is five years and Clinton left office in early 2013.”

That’s a little misleading because it’s even worse than that. The clock begins running from the time the crime is committed and ends when charges and/or indictments are formally brought. That leaves most Clinton’s bribery and pay to play schemes out of reach. Crimes involving treason, human trafficking, and capital crimes are not subject to the standard five year limitation. Maybe there’s something in that direction.

Fraud or a deliberate effort to hide the crime can actually toll the Statute of Limitations, so, it is not completely unfeasible that some of her crimes from more than five years ago could still be prosecuted.

Hmmm. I’m sure a good lawyer could get around the 5 year limit. She not only ran a private server, she kept the documents long after she left office. If she had simply deleted everything the day after she left office then I could see 5 years being an issue, but the fact that she kept them and then subverted the investigation was/is an ongoing offense. Just how I see it, I’m not expert.

Jan. 4 (UPI) — South Florida residents discovered frozen reptiles near their homes and beaches as temperatures in the area dropped below 40 degrees on Thursday.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission warned the frozen iguanas — seen falling from their perches in trees or lying stiff near backyard pools — aren’t dead, but rather immobilized by the cold weather.

“It’s too cold for them to move,” Kristen Sommers of the FWC said. “Don’t assume that they’re dead.”

Sommers added the cold may provide some residents the opportunity to rid the area of green iguanas, which are an invasive species in Florida.

“This provides an opportunity to capture some, but I’m not sure it’s going to be cold enough for long enough to make enough of a difference,” she said. “In most cases, they’re going to warm back up and move around again, unless they’re euthanized.”

A similar freeze in 2010 resulted in the deaths of large portions of Florida’s iguana and Burmese python populations.”

I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!

Iceland just became the first country in the world to make it illegal to pay men more than women. In the United States in 2016, black women made 62.5 cents on the dollar compared to white men and hispanic women made 54.4 cents. That is a disgrace. pic.twitter.com/y2sxSWYVrm

Actually, it’s the job of journalists — at least those who are reporters — to cover the news without fear or favor and leave the job or forcing change and “moving the needle” to the voting public. https://t.co/4RBa9Z0eyJ

I remember the days when being a Journalist required being educated to be a journalist & not a hack attorney, & that the purpose of Journalism was to report truthful informative things not create works of fiction to force ideals……Color me shocked….. 😉🙄🙄 pic.twitter.com/0MEB7WYr9X

Bernie your WIFE ripped off the university/college she WORKED FOR and now it’s CLOSED …. PUTZ! Take your I’ll gotten gains and move to Del Boca Vista already, your dogs don’t hunt no more, or ever did …. 😠💥💥💥💥☄️

This is Twitter account of a Janice Min who claims she was present at a dinner party with Bannon and Roger Ailes.
She says every word of Wolfe’s book is true, and that President Trump himself let Wolfe have access to the White House.

The marxist left is giddy over the Wolfe book. And believe every word.

The left is giddy over their fantasy of impeaching Trump.
Their giddiness just keeps them at their computers and off the streets.
And on their computers they are letting the world know what cretins they are…fodder for brilliance such as Wood’s Tweets, The Sheriff’s Tweets, D’Souza’s Tweets, & The_Donald’s scorn.
Oh, and our scorn.

I don’t know Janice Min from the Man in the Moon. Quite possibly she is the next Mother Theresa, I wouldn’t know.

However, dinner parties with celebs aside, all it takes is just the teensy tiniest bit of critical thinking or even objectivity when reading the previews of this Wolff book to make one go, “Really???”

It strains credulity. It is just as believable as the Dirty Dossier, which is to say…it isn’t. It just doesn’t pass the smell test. Unless one is already a devoted Marxist who is panting for “Impeach 45” like Maxine Waters and then I guess you’ll believe anything that supports your world view.

“Trolling liberals. It’s something President Trump is great at. Most of the time, liberals don’t even realize Trump is messing with them. For example, his tweet the other day about global warming had liberals all up in arms and they tried to pretend that Trump doesn’t understand how the climate works. No. He’s just making fun of you. How do you not see that?

Donald Trump Jr. has definitely learned a thing or two from his dad. He’s become a pretty big thorn in the side of the liberal left as well. He knows his way around Twitter.

They won’t be happy about his end of the year tweet.

From Conservative Tribune:

Since almost everything President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. says or does invariably triggers outrage from liberal snowflakes, Trump Jr. decided on New Year’s Eve — his 40th birthday — to preemptively apologize in advance of whatever he winds up doing in 2018.

“Time for my annual pre-apology,” he tweeted Sunday morning. “I would like to pre-apologize for anything I say or do here that you don’t like. I’m not going to change anything per se just apologizing for your overreaction. #happynewyear.”

Gotta love it.

It’s really strange watching the liberal left pretend to be outraged over tweets. They want President Trump to stop tweeting so badly. Why? It’s not like that will change anything in their minds. There’s no way Trump should stop tweeting and Trump Jr. shouldn’t stop either. It allows them to get a message directly to the people without liberal spin and the tweets also highlight liberal hypocrisy and fragility.

Ok, I was worried as ol’ Lou seemed extra steamed. I say AG Sessions is over the target 🎯 and the vermin (COC) and that stupid caucus group (can’t think what they’re call but I have names for them 🤨) want him pulled off …. jerks.